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Before LLMs the barrier to modifying software was much higher - in skill and time investment required.

Now we're getting to the point where any user can say "Claude, I don't like that. Please fix" and have it fixed. Configurability/extensibility can work in some cases, but having source code makes it much more powerful.

> However, if I were to guess, I think less than 1% of people actually review, let alone modify the open source projects they use.

I've done this a lot when trying to squash bugs

I think it's pretty common in software companies to maintain own custom fork of an open-source tool/library.